Tag: classic cakes

• Baking Update!

  

  Hi everyone! I feel as if it’s a lifetime since I last updated my blog. My last post was just around Easter, I think. As soon as we got into the second week of the Easter holidays, I began to feel unwell. I have been using HRT for nearly two years and due to the […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  June 6, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge

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• #100bakes: Lemon drizzle cake

  

  There are quite a few Lemon Drizzle Cakes or variations of Lemon Cakes already on my blog. But I was wanting to contribute a couple of cakes to the Cake Stall at our village coffee morning. Lemon Drizzle cake always seems to be popular at events and a traybake is so easy to make. Just […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  March 20, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Mary Berry, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

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• National Oreo Cookie Day

  

  Who likes Oreo cookies? I do, although they’re not my favourite cookie. I like baking with them, though. I like the mini ones best, which are the lunchbox bag ones with six cookies inside. Yesterday (Sunday, March 5th) was National Oreo Cookie Day according to the My Legoman Foodie Days Of 2022 calendar. When I […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  March 7, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Chocolate Treats, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

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• Carrot Cake #100bakeschallenge

  

  Thursday 3rd February was National Carrot Cake Day! I know what you’re all thinking! Oh, she’s a bit late here, it’s now Tuesday 8th February. But last Thursday was so busy, I had no time to think about making any carrot cakes. Instead I shared a photo collage of some previous carrot cakes I’d made, […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  February 8, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Classic and Traditional Cakes, Mary Berry, Traybakes and Tea Loaves, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

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• Devil’s Food Cake -National Chocolate Cake Day

  

  I had no idea it was National Chocolate Cake Day on the same day as Mr S’ birthday! It was a huge coincidence that I was baking him a chocolate flavoured birthday cake this year for him instead of the Lockdown brownies he got last year. I love baking chocolate cakes (and eating them, too […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  January 31, 2022

  Amazing Cakes, Chocolate Treats, Seasonal and Celebration Cakes

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• Sticky Toffee Pudding- #100bakes

  

  This is my go-to dessert recipe for New Year’s Day or for a winter family Sunday lunch

  Smart Cookie Sam

  January 2, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Christmas, Classic and Traditional Cakes, Family Meals, Hot Puddings and Desserts, Seasonal

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• Amazing Cakes #28: Mint Chocolate Roulade

  

  Baking roulades and Swiss Rolls always fills me with dread. They look fiddly and messy whenever I make them and the filling never looks neat when I roll them up. Or the actual sponge cracks so much. Roulades are usually made without flour and fat and are whisked sponges baked in a flat rectangular cake […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  August 22, 2021

  Amazing Cakes, Chocolate Treats

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• Amazing Cakes #21: Cherry Cake

  

  I’m trying my hardest to do a baking challenge: baking all the recipes in the Great British Bake Off book “The Big Book Of Amazing Cakes”, which was published to tie in with 2019’s series. What I hadn’t realised was that because some of the recipes had come from previous series, I’d actually baked a […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  February 7, 2021

  Amazing Cakes, Classic and Traditional Cakes

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• Carrot Cake: Amazing Cakes #19

  Hi everyone! I’ve realised I’ve not been on my blog and updated it for well over two months!  Happy New Year to you all for a start! Not only that but it hasn’t been a great start to 2021 has it? The pandemic and the latest lockdown aside, I always find January and February really […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  February 7, 2021

  Amazing Cakes, Classic and Traditional Cakes

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• Amazing Cakes #9: Coffee and Salted Caramel Cake

  

  While we’re self isolating and Mr S is working from home sometimes he likes to have something with a cuppa to keep him going on an afternoon.  Last week’s Victoria Sponge had been eaten and he doesn’t really like gingerbread like the gingerbread loaf I made the day before.  So on Sunday morning I planned […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  October 15, 2020

  Amazing Cakes, Classic and Traditional Cakes, The Great British Bake Off

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